Elephant and Animal Watching in Kuiburi National Park - Join Afternoon Tour

Overview

Available languages

Thai

English

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Kuiburi National Park is the only place in Thailand where more than 320 protected wild elephants live and you will have the unique 90 - 95% opportunity to see them in this untouched wildlife. In addition to Asian elephants and gaurs, the other relatively common mammals are golden jackals, various deer, langurs, white-handed gibbons, Burmese hares, Malay porcupines and wild boars. Kui Buri has a rich fauna of birds with over 260 species currently. Crested falcons, grey peacock pheasants, ferrous partridges, Tickell's brown hornbills, white-crowned hornbills, brown fish owls, yellow-ventilated green pigeons, white-fronted dwarf-eared owls, mustache hawks, red-necked hornbills, blue-collared parrots, chestnut-nickel fork tails, red-bearded bee-eaters, maroon woodpeckers.There are also birds like the Crested Fireback, Indian Roller and Asian Openbill bird or even gaurs and leopards.

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What To Expect

Kui Buri National Park

After a one-and-a-half-hour drive, we reach the Kui Buri Visitor Center and transfer from the national park to a guided safari vehicle. We travel to the Huai Luek Wildlife Area and wait for the elephants and other animals to forage. We also visit the beautiful dry-humid forest and observe birds such as the Crested Fireback, the Indian Roller, and the Asian Spoonbill! Occasionally, we may also spot gaurs and leopards. Please note before booking: This trip is not a zoo visit. There are approximately 320 protected wild elephants left in this national park, and the chance of seeing elephants in the wild and on rough terrain is about 90-95 percent. However, we cannot guarantee 100 percent that or how many elephants you will see. Sometimes you will see them from a distance or just a few hundred meters away. There are also many other animals to observe, such as birds and gaurs. We will stay in the park about 3 Hours or sometimes until it is getting almost dark.

4 hours • Admission Included

Hua Hin

After visiting the national park, we will have a typical Thai dinner at a Thai restaurant near the national park to support the locals before returning to your hotel

45 minutes • Admission Not Applicable

What‘s Included

shared Binacular

Bottled water

Dinner

Air-conditioned vehicle

Excellent Tour Guide

Tips

Coffee and/or Tea

Alcoholic Beverages

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Reviews

4.30

77 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Excellent Experience!
Jasmine C,,Jan 25, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Excellent experience. Tour guide was amazing, seen lots of elephants and a few monkey’s! Our dinner was wonderful. Great overall :)
A national park of beauty
Thierry K,,Jan 12, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00
The visit to the national park is very well organized. We are picked up at the hotel and dropped off at the park entrance. There, rangers take over and, in a pickup, we crisscross the park. Four fixed stops are planned, corresponding to four observation points. The visit to the park itself lasts about two and a half hours. The guide and driver is perfect. The rangers are very efficient and friendly. On the way back, we stop by the side of the road for a meal, a shame in an oay renowned for its tasty cuisine. The tour is warmly recommended and deserves five stars, the disastrous culinary aspect being overshadowed by the beauty of the park.
Nice experience with a great organization
Silvia B,,Dec 27, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00
The tour was very well organized, Everything was on time. The Park is great and the guides did their best to allow us to see the elephants passing through.
Great day in Thailand
laz1965,,Dec 8, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
A great day spent in the national park seeing elephants and powers up close The guide was brilliant and informative Nice meal in local restaurant at the end Long day but we'll worth it
Amazing experience
C2051SPsimona,,Dec 5, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
A great half day , picked up from the hotel around 1h 15m to get there and then another 15/20m till we saw the first of several elephant troops and other local wildlife. We deliberately choose an overcast and cooler day as hoped it would increase our chances and we weren’t wrong 20+ elephants and an amazing scene at the end as a troop of 9 right in front around 25m away. We didn’t see much else but it’s really about seeing elephants in the wild. A lovely guide in the forest in our off road vehicle. The Thai restaurant you stop at for dinner is really good also. The driver and guide excellent. A brilliant trip
Great tour!
Chad A,,Nov 30, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00
Talked with the guide who has been doing the tour 19 years and he said he only had 6 times where they had not seen elephants. Super tour and great food to cap off the evening as well!
Amazing!
nathanbQ6302FV,,Nov 27, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Great tour! Tour guides were great, smooth transfer pickup, restaurant at the end was nice and best of all we saw lots of wild elephants and gaur! Highly recommend 👍
Highly recommended tour!
JoKra15,,Nov 16, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
A great tour we can recommend to anyone! Our guide Bee was great! He already told us a lot of interesting things about the country and the things we saw on the way to the national park. Once in the park, he was very dedicated and made a lot of effort to ensure that we saw many animals. We also actually saw elephants in three different places, once it was even a larger group with two juveniles. We were able to observe them up close, which was really special! All in all a wonderful excursion, we would definitely book the tour again!
Fun activity, even going solo.
Lynn P,,Nov 9, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00
This was a fun experience. Our group did get to see one elephant from a distance, but the entire experience was very informative and fun. Our guide went out of his way to make sure we all enjoyed the day and kept it very fun!
Elephants in the wild
Bilkanator,,Sep 2, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
I went on this Kuiburi National Park tour with my wife. We had done many different experiences with elephants in the past, but this was our first time seeing them in the wild. We were prepared to possibly not see any. After all, there could not be a guarantee for us to see anything, since these were wild animals. I was thinking that if we were lucky to see any, that they would be a great distance away. It turns out that we saw a big group of elephants just a few minutes into the tour. We were even quite close to them. I would not have wanted to be any closer than we were. At this point, I already thought the tour was a success. We did end up seeing quite a few more in several different areas of the park. I highly recommend this experience for everyone.